Houssein Ahmed Farah

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Online journalist Houssein
Ahmed Farah spent more than three months in jail in Djibouti before an
appeals court finally released him in November--after his defense requested
bail three times, Houssein said. His crime? Officially nothing. "It appears to
have been an arbitrary arrest because there is still no evidence on file," Houssein
told me. He said he was accused of distributing identity cards for the
opposition, but he has not been charged with a crime.

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Nairobi, August 15,
2012--Authorities in Djibouti must immediately release a journalist for an
opposition news website who has been jailed for a week without charge or access
to a lawyer or his family, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Two police officers
arrested Houssein Ahmed Farah, a contributor to the Europe-based news website La
Voix de Djibouti(The Voice of Djibouti), on August 8, according to
news reports.
Three days later, a local judge ordered him to be remanded to Gabode Prison in
Djibouti City, the capital, according to local journalists. Houssein is
diabetic, and local journalists believe he has not been granted access to a
doctor while in detention.